Village Kids’ Awareness Programme, Bandhavgarh TR, Dec 2017

Project Info

Project Description

Last Wilderness Foundation in association with the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve Forest Department conducted the 13th leg of the Village Awareness programme in the buffer zone of the tiger reserve, in order to sensitise the students about the bio-diversity that exists around them and the need to protect the same. During the course of the programme, the students were taken to the park wherein they were initiated into the world of wilderness and exposed to the various sights and sounds of the forest. The safari is followed by screening of the movie ‘The Truth About Tigers’ and an interactive session about conservation measures and what each one of them can do in their capacity to give shape to these measures.

The programme undertaken from 9th- 11th December 2017 witnessed interaction with almost 200 students covering 7 villages located in the Panpatha region of the park.

The Village Kids’ Awareness programme, initiated in the year 2012 aims to further aid conservation with the help of communities and to undertake the cause of awareness, understanding, sensitisation, among those who share their space with the tiger.

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Everyone has an equal right to enjoy forests and appreciate the natural heritage created by the birds and animals existing in the most magnificent of our wilderness scapes. To this effect, Last Wilderness Foundation, in tandem with the Kanha Forest Department conducted a two-day programme for 40 students and teachers from the ‘Netraheen Kanya Vidyalaya’, Jabalpur.

The idea behind the programme was to meet with the local communities residing in the villages and to have a dialogue with them about the importance of conservation and what they can do in their capacity to protect it.

The programme was attended by 20 students and 5 teachers. While some of the students attending, had hearing impairment, a few of them had been diagnosed as mentally challenged. A 2-day camp for meant for students with special needs, was special for more reasons than one, where disability took a backseat and sheer love for the forests took over in the duration of the programme.

The biggest post discussion takeaway for the students was to understand the forest and the animals by helping in dispelling myths about the same. The students were encouraged to create ‘myth busting’ awareness in their concerned regions so as to help other people also appreciate wildlife rather than fearing it or misusing it thereby leading to their depletion.